The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-05-20
trey he'd q been I wouldn,t a prung

they he'd n been | wouldn't brung
um."
There was a rattle OF silver coins, Il
crack OF the long-lashed whip aud q
creak OF the mountain break, and the
market wagon started on. and Mad
oline turned her back INTO the porch
and vanished from her husbands
sight.
He sat down thinking OF the changes
that had been wrought since that first
morning SO long ago. Then he had
been an invalid waiting .or his coffin,
a dying man eking out few days,
now he was strong and comparative
ly we'll. He looked at the dumbbells
(his little physician's prescrlption),
and he felt OF his well-muscled arms,
and threw back his shoulders and let
the bracing March air into his lungs,
and was glad that he had lived.
have every thing in this world;
| He went away with n heavy heart.
Madeline smilinsiy gave hm her hand
| at parting, and it was all over.
! He had come out OF the sweetest
dream OF his life with seemingly every
thing to make him happy, health IN a
| fair degree, money, n good appetite,
and friends in his old home glad to
welcome him back IRON the border
1 land OF Death, but man will be an un-
grateful creature to the end OF the
world, aud he cursed his fate and
sighed for the graceful figure and the
bright, sunny face OF one woman, when
| the world was tuil OF women. each
ready to be taken from the home
hearth, as q flower is waiting to be
| pucked from the multitude OF the I'M
chosen.
But in modern parlance "He want
ed the EARTH" and it was II very
small part OF it's dust embodied iA The
sweetness and charm of little Mado-
line, that seemed so desirable to him.
Months passed slowly enough. He
had expected to be notified in due, le-
| gal form that his wife wished to be
separated from him, and was puzzled
to know why such notification did
not make its appearance.
He determined to make her hand
some provision when the time came,
and all the old interest in business
having returned with his health, he be-
came a most assidous man of busi-
ness, forming stock companies, work.
ing mines, buying and selling, and ne
gotiating and trying in all this to lose
sense OF the small pain tugging away
Mt his big ophisticated heart.
He Travelled about n good deal at
that time. and at last business brought
him to Chicago, and his arrival was
duly chroniced.
He knew this had been Madoline's
home at one time, but he had heard
no word from her all this while, and
he wondered if she were still at those
| blessed springs, or whether she We're
we'll and happy, and, indeed, he won
dered all things about her, for she was
continually in his thoughts.
AS he came into the hotel one after
noon and was about to step into the
elevator, a lady who had been for
sometime waiting and watching from
the reception-room, stepped forward
and laid little hand on his arm. He
looked down, and there smiling up at
him, hall afraid of the reception shs
might get, stood the wife he had left
down i'll Arkansas.
You know how dim it is in that lit
tie cornerby the elevator, and no one
was passing down the stairs just at
the time to see the tall man stoop
down and gather the little woman in
his arms and kiss the pretty little
mouth, and there was the deserted re-
ception.room and lie drew her in there
and together they sat down on the So
fa and looked at each other.
"You do love me yet, dou't you?"
she asked, her eyes full OF tears. II
don't want any divorce. / want to
live with you always, may II"
And she looked SO pitiful and so low
able and so altogether womanly that
he was on tho point Of repeating the
idiocy OF which he had been guilty in
the hall, when he was prevented by
the entrance OF the liveried watch
man.
"Will you come home with me2"
asked Madeline. "My carriage is at
the door" And before they reached
her fathar's home on Michigan avenue
they were bothin the most utter state
OF content.
"'rhere is one disease that starving
|, will not cure" said Denslow to his
father-in-law that evening, "and it
seems that Madeline agrees with me
=
love"
After chat they had their wedding
tour and the wedding reception and
were quite 'old married folks" before
; he could get accustomed to the idea o.
!, this shy, clingins. Aprilsmiles and
!. tears, little woman being the same i'll
, dividual as that cool, decisive, tyran
a meal, self.assertive physician VINO hac
!; saved his life and hidden HIM so indif
: ferent Ii farewell
: After he had lett she had been rest
i. less and moody and missed him much
i and still she did not properly diagnos,
:, her own case.
;, She and her mother went home, ant
: this restlessness still held possession
Il OF her, this nameiess longing still KEEP
y. her company in its silent, insisten
n way.
/. Nothing amuses me any more, sh
i. had said to hermother. II wish j hat
+ another patient to cure" and when
- ever her mamma suggested the pro
Il priety OF proceeding toward divorc
j. mot that she wanted her to get one
y but only to see what she would IN
: swer), Madeline would say: "Oh
there's time enough for that later,
:. and during That time I'm afraid sh
u developed hitherto dormant tast
y iof Irritation, and there is many
! young man to-day in Chicago VIII
e carries q little scar On his heart fror
y Madoline's stabbing. And then, on
;. morning, III looking over the Times
e she saw among the arrivals the nam
l. OF her husband, and she knew by til
&c way the blood seemed to seek he
: heart, and then leave it for til
!, smoat5pess OF her cheek, and by tn
a trembling oi l.ar little hands as the
II held the precious newspaper, and b.
's the unutterable longing once more +
e. see the tall figure and the bearde
Z. iace OF one man greater and NOR
'e splendid il her eyes than all the res
). OF the men in she wcrld-by all thes
= signs and symptoms she snew tha
- meant love, and that her obdurat
= beart had faiien . victim TO II tiiseas
% that Gll her science could not cure
~ Medora Clark In Chicago Current
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